60 Lenin Ave., 61002, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Phone: (057) 340 9339; fax: (057) 340 9343;
e-mail: info@isc.kharkov.com;
http://www.isc.kharkov.com

Principal research areas:

At SSI ‘Institute for Single Crystals’:

– chemistry and technology of photo-active organic compounds, chiral and liquid crystalline materials and their components;

– analytical-chemistry and structure studies of functional materials;

– chemistry and technology of pharmaceutical and medico-biological materials and physiologically active compounds.

At NAS Institute for Single Crystals:

– development of fundamental research into growth processes in crystals and nano-systems; search for new crystalline media with functionally important properties; fundamental principles of nano-technologies;

– integrated studies of physical phenomena in optical single crystals, nano-systems and their physico-chemical properties;

– theory of non-linear phenomena, transport and structure formation in condensed matter.

At the Institute for Scintillation Materials:

– fundamental and applied materials studies of scintillation and luminescent media;

– development of technologies for manufacturing scintillation detectors and devices on their basis;

– fundamental research of the interaction between radiation and matter.

At R&D Centre of Immunobiotechnology:

– development and perfection of immune ferment test systems for diagnostics of common human and animal diseases on the basis of state-of-the-art achievements in biotechnology;

– development of reference panels for standardizing laboratory diagnostics of common infections by means of immune-ferment and molecular-genetic research methods;

– development of fast instrument-free immune chromatographic tests for infection diagnostics.

At Research Institute for Micro Devices:

– fundamental and applied stydies of micro-, nano- and optoelectronic structures for producing integrated-circuit, light- pipe and microelectronic devices for special purpose;

– development and application of chips, laser and optoelectronic devices;

– development of diagnostic procedures and physical-and-technical methods for studying semiconductor materials and devices on their basis.

The R&D corporation ‘Institute for Single Crystals’ unites the following science schools:

– non-equilibrium phenomena in solids, single-crystal technology, studies of semiconductor materials;

– chemistry of organic luminophors;

– analytical chemistry of functional materials;

– chemistry of heterocyclic compounds;

– nonlinear physics;

– optical and constructional crystals;

– detectors and devices for digital radiography, inspection equipment and radiation monitoring;

– epidemiology of virus hepatitis and AIDS (HIV);

– biotechnology of interferon and immunomodulators;

– scintillation materials science;

– physics and optics of scintillator materials;

– growing of crystals.

The R&D Corporation proposes for cooperative commercialization:

– scintillation single crystals and detector devices on their basis;

– plastic scintillators for various purposes;

– optical and construction crystals and products on their basis;

– organic luminophors and dyes, pigments, taps and probes for biological purposes;

– luminescent nanocrystals;

– integrated circuits, photodetectors, semiconducting LEDs and other microelectronic devices;

– immune-enzyme and genetic test-systems;

– pharmacological substances for medicine.